Tag: blockchain

What is Ethereum? The Ultimate Beginners Guide With the second largest market cap in the cryptocurrency world, Ethereum has drawn a lot of attention from investors and crypto enthusiasts alike. This relatively new cryptocurrency not only presents a significant change to...

The backbone of Bitcoin – the blockchain – ensures that two parties can do a transaction without the intervention of third parties. A technology that is interesting not only for banks and insurers, but also for online entrepreneurs. What are the...

We regularly write cryptocurrency here, of which Bitcoin is of course the largest. While Bitcoin keeps on climbing, you would almost forget that there are also other digital coins. Coins that are still dirt-cheap, and may still match the explosive growth...

What is Ripple? Ripple is a global settlement network, making it easy to send any currency to anyone, anywhere in the world, in a matter of seconds. The Ripple platform has made the archaic system of sending money through SWIFT or...

The basis for new users As a new user you can get started with Bitcoin without technical knowledge. Once you have installed a Bitcoin wallet on your computer or mobile phone, your first Bitcoin address is generated and you can always...

Ethereum is not a cryptocurrency (digital money), such as the known bitcoins or the litecoins. Ethereum is primarily a network that you can best compare with the internet technology and data structure of Bitcoin: the Blockchain . The blockchain or blockchain...

The Byzantine general problem This dilemma – how do you work together without knowing the extent to which the other parties involved can be trusted – has been known for some decades as the Byzantine General Problem . Translated to Bitcoin...